[plt-scheme] PlaneT, plts and distributing software.

At Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:19:18 -0400, Anton van Straaten wrote:
> Robby Findler wrote:
> > At Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:03:38 -0400, Anton van Straaten wrote:
> > 
> >>If every module in my program includes the same require statements with 
> >>the same X & Y values, I'd like to be able to centralize that so that if 
> >>I need to change X & Y, I can do it in one place.  Again, there might be 
> >>cases where embedding X & Y in the requiring module makes sense, but I 
> >>would see those cases as being for little scripts and such, not for 
> >>larger multi-module systems.
> > 
> > 
> > For this one point, you can already do that, with small modules that
> > pull in the planet dependency and re-export everything. You may object
> > by saying that you had to plan ahead for this upgrade, but really
> > you're objecting about `module' itself, not about planet (and I hear
> > there are some plans along these lines coming from the Utah guys).
> 
> Good point, and I don't have any objection to it, not even the one you 
> suggest, since that kind of planning ahead is perfectly viable.
> 
> However, doing this for many dependencies in a reasonably-sized 
> application, you'd end up with lots of little PLaneT-module-wrapping 
> modules.  In that situation, having a way to achieve the same effect in 
> a single module configuration/mapping file could still come in handy. 
> It's not essential, though.

This is hopefully what those Utah guys can help with.

Robby